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question 42

Multiple Choice

What circumstances enabled U.S.industrialists to hire cheap labor from around the world in the 1870s?

• A) Only immigrants were willing to work as hard as the industrialists demanded.
• B) Native-born Americans refused to work for the low wages industrialists offered.
• C) There were no political barriers to hiring immigrants from northern Europe.
• D) Railroad expansion and low steamship fares brought many immigrants to America.

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